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• Renewable Energy Industry Standards are Needed Now

  David Sweetman, VP of Quality & Reliability, Retired

  07.18.08 - Renewable energy equipment providers have historically set their marketing strategy to target off-grid and similar small, very tolerant users.
  

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• Ready for the Smart Customer?

  

  Donald Harker, Director, Navigant Consulting, Inc.

  07.07.08 - Most discussions concerning SmartGrid describe the benefits of two way communications with residential customers in terms of providing additional energy information and offering more sophisticated methods to control energy usage.
  

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• CIOs Have Reached the Boardroom...Oops!

  

  Warren Causey, Vice President, Sierra Energy Group

  06.19.08 - Only a few years ago, it wasn't uncommon to see articles about the climb from basement data processing centers toward the executive suite by utilities' top information technology (IT) staffers, or chief information officers (CIOs). At most utilities today -- although there still are exceptions scattered around the country -- they have arrived.
  

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• A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: the Agile Grid

  

  Stephen Hadden, Vice President, Plexus Research, Inc.
  Shannon Messer, Senior Consultant, R. W. Beck

  06.02.08 - The concept of an intelligent electric utility infrastructure or “Smart Grid” is attracting wide interest among utilities, consultants, regulators, and other utility stakeholders. The widespread interest, however, is accompanied by widely differing expectations about when Smart Grid will emerge.
  

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• Research on the Characteristics of a Modern Grid: Accommodates All Generation and Storage Options

  

  Joe Miller, Sr. Vice President, Horizon Energy Group

  05.19.08 - One of the drivers that has enabled the U.S. economy to grow is the quality of our power generation and delivery system. Today, our electricity grid is powered primarily by large, centralized generation facilities with only a small amount provided by distributed energy resources.
  

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• The Next Step in Outdoor Instrument Transformer Technology

  

  Hoan Le, Consulting Engineer, ABB Inc.

  05.05.08 - Instrument transformers are designed to transform voltage or current from the high values in the transmission and distribution systems to the low values that can be utilized by low voltage devices.
  

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• Principal Characteristics of the Modern Grid

  

  Steven Pullins, President, Horizon Energy Group

  04.21.08 - In the Modern Grid, consumers will be an integral part of the electric system. They will help balance supply and demand and ensure reliability by modifying the way they use and purchase electricity. These modifications will come as a result of consumers having choices that will motivate different purchasing patterns and behaviors.
  

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• Utilities Full Speed Ahead on IUE/SG: The Question is What to do First

  

  Warren Causey, Vice President, Sierra Energy Group

  04.07.08 - The next 10 to 15 years will see major changes - perhaps even classified as upheavals by future historians - in the distribution of electricity to businesses and households throughout the United States. The exact nature of these changes and their long-term effect upon the economic well-being and security of the country are difficult to predict.
  

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• The Many Faces of Demand

  Jeff Tolnar, Chief Technology Officer, BPL Global

  03.24.08 - We have all heard of the supply-demand imbalance of energy, where supply growth is slow and demand continues to grow at ever-increasing rates. It is true that there is still a margin between generation and energy usage; however, taken at a granular level, the issue is pronounced.
  

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• Evolution of the Smart Grid Substation

  

  Gary Ockwell, Technical Officer, Advanced Control Systems, Inc.

  03.10.08 - Substation automation has slowly evolved from the classical remote terminal unit, to the current network based terminal unit. However the inception of the Smart Grid is a catalyst towards a new evolutionary step in distributed automation.
  

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